Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Filiis autem Caath non dedit plaustra et boves : quia in sanctuario serviunt, et onera propriis portant humeris.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς Καὰθ οὐκ ἔδωκεν, ὅτι τὰ λειτουργήματα τοῦ ἁγίου ἔχουσιν· ἐπ᾽ ὤμων ἀροῦσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלִבְנֵ֥י קְהָ֖ת לֹ֣א נָתָ֑ן כִּֽי עֲבֹדַ֤ת הַקֹּ֨דֶשׁ֙ עֲלֵהֶ֔ם בַּכָּתֵ֖ף יִשָּֽׂאוּ
Haydock's commentary
Serve in removing the most sacred vessels of the sanctuary, chap. iv. 4.
Shoulders, out of respect. Yet the ark itself was placed on a cart, (2 Kings vi. 3.; Haydock) improperly. (Du Hamel)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.